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India at 75: An Independence Day Flashback

Many things have changed since January 26, 1950, when our Founding Fathers gifted us this Republic. While we have established our government and fundamental laws, we need to examine whether the separation of powers between the Executive, Judiciary and Legislature operates as it should.

Ramana shows the way, again

Free legal aid and the assurance of its universal availability is important to keep police excesses in check, CJI NV Ramana said recently. He also noted how police stations are the places where rights are easily trampled upon resulting often in custodial deaths and other excesses.

The Tearing Hurry

Development is a central mantra of this government. But Development is assumed to be in lifting places and people from pitiable conditions to better times. But Development is now so souped up on acid that it has to be called Re-Development. Poor Vikas with bulging muscles and red, red eyes.

Discarded, a tool of greed

By Sujit Bhar The legal ramifications of the repeal of the obtuse retrospective tax law of India have been dissected and the viscera is out in the open for all to observe. However, the corporate b...

Revolutionising the Equity Market

After noticing numerous flaws in the IPO pricing method, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) set up a specialist panel to finetune it. Up to now, Rs 42,000 crore has been raised through 28 IPOs.

Now, an AI inventor

An Australian court recently decreed that artificial intelligence can be recognised as an inventor in a patent submission. That opens up serious legal and technological questions.

Long Live Human Rights Learning

The founding president of People’s Decade for Human Rights Education, Shulamith Koenig, believed that only a rights framework can encourage disciplined and socially responsible development through investment and trade

Honourable Privileges

The Court has ruled that legislative privilege cannot be extended to provide legal protection to criminal acts by lawmakers. Destruction of property in the name of protests should not be tolerated, it said.

The War Within

An analysis of why this sensitive Northeast region has exploded again.

A Crusade on Lawlessness?

The apex court has stated that India cannot have one legal system for the rich and one for small men. Even though a large number of Indians is in preventive detention, the judiciary seems powerless to change the overall structures of power.

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